Marc Simonetti (born in 1977 in France) is a French concept artist/ illustrator.Best known for his work on GRR Martin's books "A song of Ice and Fire", and his Iron throne, he's also illustrated some of the most well known fantasy and SciFi novels, such as the Discworld by Terry Pratchett, The Royal Assassin trilogy by Robin Hobb, Patrick Rothfuss's "NAME OF THE WIND", Terry Brook's "Shannara cycle", or Frank Herbert's "DUNE"...He's also worked for many video games companies such as Activision, ubisoft, Magic The Gathering, EA, Square Enix and King Isle Entertainment.

He's just finished working on "VALERIAN and the City of a thousand Planets" by LUC BESSON.

He's now working on some other projects including "SYSTEM SHOCK 3" for Otherside Entertainment.